Angel of Darkness (anime)

The first episode begins during a rainy night in a thunderstorm when Professor Goda is digging under a large tree in the schoolyard of Siren Academy, a prestigious boarding school for girls. He breaks through a mysterious stone tablet and is attacked by a large tentacled monster and is suddenly infected. Later, millions of students are attending the opening ceremony of the new school semester. It's at this point we discover that two young girls - Sayaka and Atsuko, are lesbian lovers that have dated since high school, and are trying to hide their affair from Atsuko's older sister, who is currently playing the church organ. We then see Professor Goda, who is also attending the opening ceremonies, looking on the crowd of freshmen with evil intent and a sinister smile. After the ceremony has ended, a group of five girls discover a goblin-looking creature in the background of one of their photos after getting the picture taken; they decide to throw away the picture, due to its frightening appearance.

The scene then shifts to an underground basement in the school's church, where Professor Goda and The Director are raping a freshman student who is tied up and gagged. The Director is dressed up in typical black S&M bondage gear while Goda is buck naked. Goda comments that he needs the extracts of younger women in order to provide food for an organism that he just discovered. The Director appears to be enjoying watching the torture and involves herself in the process by whipping the freshman with her riding crop until the freshman faints from shock.

The scene cuts to the dormitory where Sayaka and Atsuko are currently engaging in heavy fondling and passionate kissing in their dorm room. The scene develops into a full sex scene until they are interrupted at the end of their lovemaking by a group of fellow students knocking at the door asking them to come to dinner. It's at this point there are clear signs that there is something wrong with the student population as all the girls appear to be listless and uninterested in anything, including Atsuko's "impressions".

Yuko manages to get a little life out of them through her violin playing, but it is clear there is still something wrong. Professor Goda is in the church listening to the music when he is suddenly attacked by what appears to be a fairy, who we later find out is named Rom. The show then cuts to a montage of Sayaka and Atsuko's life at their new school, and Atsuko proves to be an apt athlete in lacrosse and a healthy but big eater, and is very popular with the other girls in the school, to the disapproval of Sayaka who wants Atsuko all for herself.

Considered soft porn, Angel of Darkness' attempts to merge the magical girl anime formula with the tentacle rape hentai genre. This was done in order to circumvent stringent Japanese censorship laws at the time that did not allow the animation of the pubic region and identifiable genitalia. As such, hentai films began using monsters with phallic tentacles to "rape" women in films.[5]

Patrick Drazen regards Angel of Darkness as being an example of the use of "horror to express sexual anxiety", and as an example of Gothic fiction.[7] Chris Beveridge regards the hentai to be "neither the best nor the worst" that he had seen, but enjoyed the third episode over the last, as it was more plot-oriented.[8]

• Official Pink Pineapple Angel of Darkness website (in Japanese)
• SoftCel Pictures page: animated series
• Critical Mass Video page: live action series
• ASM page (live action): AOD movie 2
• Angel of Darkness (OVA) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Angel of Darkness at IMDb